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non-disabled

adjective

  1. not disabled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Usage

This is the word preferred by many organizations to refer to people who have no disabilities
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Example Sentences

Disabled people are almost twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people.

From BBC

“Everyone thinks it’s hard to go from non-disabled to disabled but I think the other way around would be even harder. The path we walk and the struggles we go through make us who we are and they’re inseparable from one another.”

Today, the film would likely be questioned within the complex debate over non-disabled actors taking on disabled characters.

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She is the first player - wheelchair or non-disabled - to win three successive calendar Grand Slams and among her multiple titles are five French Open singles and six doubles titles at Roland Garros, where the Paralympic wheelchair tennis events will take place.

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Yet if there is one constant theme among neurodiversity and disability rights advocates, it is that they are grateful for all of the support from neurotypical and non-disabled allies that they can get.

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